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title: But we may be tolerably sure that she thinks about most things in so… — In Ghostly Japan · tree and pragmatics
description: But we may be tolerably sure that she thinks about most things in some odor-relation to the experience of eating or to the intuitive dread of being eaten. Who acts: we, faith, experience. A sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7, with its dependency tree and
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# In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 7, sentence 82

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But we may be tolerably sure that she thinks about most things in some odor-relation to the experience of eating or to the intuitive dread of being eaten.

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**Who acts:** we, faith, experience · **What happens:** be, think, eat · **To what, where:** odor relation, intuitive dread

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This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, faith, experience), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8128:9:82
# text = But we may be tolerably sure that she thinks about most things in some odor-relation to the experience of eating or to the intuitive dread of being eaten.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
5	tolerably	tolerably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
15	odor	odor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	intuitive	intuitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | we |  |  |  |  | sure, tolerably *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | present | faith |  |  | some odor relation to the experience |  | about most things | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic |
| 3 | **eat** | gerund | the experience *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the intuitive dread *conj* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund · passive |  | the intuitive dread *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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